Shakedown 2nd pass very tight. Citorens are in form :)
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Shakedown 2nd pass very tight. Citorens are in form :)
lol :dQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Is rally radio in English? What is the channel?
In finnish, they just have one guy sum up the results and give important announcements in English every now and then. The frequency is 99,3 MHz and online https://yle.fi/radio/radiosuomi/jyvaskyla/suora/Quote:
Originally Posted by racerx1979
Great, thanks.
https://twitter.com/HaydenPaddon/sta...53184761737216
Paddon doing third Shakedown round with Kennard
Hanninen have big damage after clipping a haybale?
Rally radio talked about little water leaking and the car was being hauled from the stage back to service instead of them driving it there, just a security measureQuote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Poor Juho is having a bad year. Hope he does well this weekend.
Thats not a confidence boost for sure
https://ewrc-results.com/quickp/3601...puwaam_zku.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by KKS
little moment for Suninen
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFuFP_GXUAAO1tk.jpg
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Seeing that Hanninen is still in service. What happens if he does not do more runs? Penalty?
Everybody else has now completed three runs with once again all the four different makes in the top four. I'm expecting Breen to do well in this rally and the shakedown time is promising.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFuY8lFW0AEwOLs.jpg
The pressure is on for Breen, in Poland he was clearly the slowest Citroen. Based on last year he should do well here and there seems to be some speed in the C3 based on shakedown, he's also very good at keeping the car on the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, overall he has done the best job of all drivers in Citroen this year, just the recent Poland result might be unsettling.
I hope you're right, would love to see Breen do well here. But my worry is that the pace at the front is going to be mega fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I think Tanak, Neuville and (possibly) Meeke were taking the Shakedown lightly and that their true pace will be seen on the stages.
That being said another top 6 result for Craig would do nicely.
On a side note.....Surely though Breen has very little left to prove this year, he's been running consistently well in most rallies and kept the head even when the team are falling down around him. From what I can see he's doing an excellent job in what looks to be a difficult environment.
Neuville already made the 2nd best time on his 4th run, 2.14.4
Regulations say:Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Does not look like penalties are likely.Quote:
29.2.2 P1 drivers shall complete a minimum of 3 passages of the shakedown stage.
And now Meeke matched Ogier's fastest time. Boy, what a rally ahead...
https://www.motorsport-news.co.uk/ne...finland-route/
Discussion about chicanes with Latvala and clerk of the course Kai Tarkiainen
Ogier's 3rd run was dismissed probably because he cut the chicane so now Meeke has the fastest time
While it's an indicator, it's always problematic to compare shakedown times when drivers do 4+ runs. Also some drivers like Ogier and Latvala did all runs in the morning and then gave up, while others (Neuville, Meeke++) did 2 then went back 1,5 hours later, so even comparing same run does not mean same conditions. Also Tanak, Evans and Breen are now going to do more runs again, some 2,5 hours after for example Latvala set his best time.
Nevertheless, Citroen does seem to be competetive (judging by both Meeke and Breen's times), which is good. (In Poland Shakedown they were 3 out of last 4 WRCs, with Breen the last one)
True, and some try different settings or save tyres, some go flat out. And after two runs you start learning the stage, but the first two runs are more like actual rallying.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
https://twitter.com/SebOgier/status/890489894971330561Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Interestingly, Ogier says he asked for it to be cancelled
https://twitter.com/krismeeke/status/890499429953925120
Meeke says he has new parts on the car that he couldn't even test in advance. The newly homologated diff parts?
Must be something else. Test vids from Meeke's test showed the car was neutral to understeering out of slow corners (just like Mikkelsen's in Poland), not massive oversteer as before with the rear-torque bias.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Close call by Breen and Latvala early in the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Pkr7nILtQ
Also it is hard to compare the times much. In the morning there was a hayball at the chicane in the last part, then a red cone, by the last run shown on the vid (Meeke) there is the plastic block that everyone bumps into.
to be honest the "chikane" at the second part of the video looks like a second class autoslalom event...not the world championship...as mknight already wrote, first a hayball, than the cone and than nothing....this is nonsense!Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
I am really happy that i was at Rally Poland...real racing no amateur chikanes :)
Marcus Yaris livery in Finland → http://bit.ly/2vLupHz
Probably had a friend bet big on onebet hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Hi everyone,
I promised you a bit more of an update before the start of Rally Finland, so here goes!
We started shakedown this morning not so confident after our test. As I said earlier in the week, conditions on that pre-event test were not so consistent, so it had been hard to play around with settings on the C3 WRC.
So this morning we started quite conservatively and then changed quite a lot of things on every run. It was like a proper test today, in fact, with consistent conditions. And yes, the C3 got better and better. It was nice to sneak in a fastest time at the end too, of course.
However, that doesn’t necessarily set the course for the rally. To explore the road here in Finland, especially stages that are new to me, or reversed from last year, you need complete commitment and confidence. It remains to be seen whether we have that feeling when we get into the first stage tomorrow morning.
Hopefully it’s there but I can’t guarantee it at the moment. We’ll just try to get through the street stage tonight, have a clean run and then we’ll see what the story is tomorrow morning.
Thanks as always for your support,
Kris
nice one
https://youtu.be/q0iArDGcS8s
Kris fastest at shake,but seems not a happy chappy at press conference.Definetely relations with Matton are not good.
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It’s only SD, but it’s great to see Citroen guys doing well. Best luck to them!
Great video, this rally is going to be crazy fast! Love itQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii